A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatre explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. In addition to insightful essays by a stellar group of international contributors, this volume also includes interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre.

Part I: History and Methodology 1. Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field Matthias Rebstock 2. Composition and Theatre Roland Quitt 3. 'Happy New Ears': Creating Hearing and the Hearable Petra Maria Meyer Part II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections4. 'It's all part of one concern': A 'Keynote' to Composition as Staging Heiner Goebbels 5. 'Theatre in small quantities': On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects Michael Hirsch 6. ...To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State... Jörg Laue 7. From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge Jörg U. Lensing 8. 'Let's stop talking about it and just do it!': Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process George Rodosthenous 9. Hearing Voices—Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media Nichoals Till 10. Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance Demetris Zavros Part III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses11. 'Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique': The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis Matthias Rebstock 12. Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann's Theatre Work(s) Judith Gerstenberg 13. Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott's Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes Christa Brüstle 14. Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris Jörn Peter Hiekel Part IV: Discussion and Debate 15. Composed Theatre—Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication Edited by Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner Part V: Discourse and Analysis16. 'It is not about labelling, it's about understanding what we do': Composed Theatre as Discourse David Roesner

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